Here's my logic, which is probably a good deal closer to his than yours is.
First, moving to OSX and an Intel platform for Apple/Mac is not the same thing at all. Apple computers come bundled with the OS. It's a complete package. In fact, it's more practical to compare a Mac with OSX to a car and its ECU than a PC with Windows. It only needs to be compatible with the hardware it ships with. And the end user doesn't really care how it works under the hood. As long as the UI is similar to the old one they're familiar with, they love it.
Secondly, OSX was built on proven OS technology. I find myself very skeptical that MS would bend over and build a *nix OS as well. Most likely any kind of "clean break" move they made would be something completely new from the ground up, and completely unproven.
Wow. Did you actually read setagllib's posts? He pretty much already answered all your questions before you asked them.
But let me summarize for you: there's an aversion to it because it's already been done. You can already get the Linux flavor of your choice and install Wine on it. MS hates competing on a level playing field, and so much more when they're at a disadvantage, which they certainly would be if they went that route.
Yes, but in this case "many" does not usually equal "thousands". At most it equals a few dozen, and most of those use the CPU very little. So what you're left with the majority of the time is one or two process that need a lot of CPU, and a multitude of cores helps very little unless those big process can be split between them.
And here I've been, thinking all this time that the real benefit to SSDs was that your laptop could fall off a table while running without killing the hard drive. Silly me.
That's not insightful at all. Just about anyone who's ever used text messaging can tell you that you get charged for incoming texts. We do need a class action suit over this.
It looks like they won't be satisfied until they can charge an "entertainment tax" that everyone on earth has to pay simply for being alive. And of course, dictate exactly how much that tax must be.
Yes, I did misread your comment. Nevertheless, most of my comment still stands. A 4870 in Crossfire performs significantly better than the X280 and the 9800 GX2 every benchmark I've seen except Crysis, and these cards also have the capability to be run in a quad Crossfire mode. Oh, and two of them sell for less than one of NVidia's top dogs.
Not any more. You haven't been keeping up too well with tech news eh? Read a few reviews and look at some benchmarks of the 4850 and 4870 cards. If it were just one or two review sites showing such favorable numbers for the new ATI cards, they might be suspect. It's not one or two. It's all of them.
Well, the amazing part of the whole deal here is that benchmarks show almost no decrease in framerate with PhysX turned on. So yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
And the even worse news for NVidia is some preliminary numbers for the upcoming 4870 X2 would indicate it will completely blow away anything NVidia currently has on the market.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I too have always enjoyed The Hobbit more than the trilogy. My point was more or less that I'd be happy just having more people read *any* of Tolkien's books instead of just watching the movies.
If the army decides to move in, it will do so with howitzers, mobile rocket launchers and bomb-proof APCs. After the USAF has carpet-bombed the place. If armed and trained gunmen couldn't hold Tora Bora, where they had solid rock and deep caves, I really don't see what the local neighbourhood militia is going to be able to do from an appartment complex.
An exageration? Not really. I seem to recall the US DoJ deciding the best way of dealing with a pack of armed bank robbers was to blast the top few floors of a tower block into oblivion. Notice I said armed bank robbers. Those are the sorts of weapons you have access to. Didn't do a damn thing for the robbers, when the bombs started dropping.
In Britain, the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis was resolved by sending in the SAS. These are NOT guys you want to mess with, no matter HOW good you think you are on the shooting range. Concussion grenades and SMGs by some of the most highly trained commandos versus whatever.45's or shotguns you might have... I'm sorry, but it's going to be one-sided.
You pretty much just answered your own question. By having their own weapons, the people in SmallTown USA force the government to use bigger weapons and kill them, instead of merely rounding them up and shipping them off somewhere to linger in a place like Gitmo or worse. I sure know which I would prefer. Give me the quick version any day.
My question is what logic dictates that I get tax deductions (+$600 bonus this year) for having kids which consume more public funding than if I had none. Obviously, it's part of the whole "think of the children" deal. It helps if you realize that generally it's the poorer families that have the most children. So the logic is that it's better to have wealthier people help support the children than throw the whole family out on the street.
I agree though, from a strictly business standpoint it doesn't make sense.
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It helps if you know how "filleted" is pronounced.
Except in this analogy, Linux with Wine is the factory-built Ford, and whatever MS comes up with would be the kit.
That's your logic, not his.
Here's my logic, which is probably a good deal closer to his than yours is.
First, moving to OSX and an Intel platform for Apple/Mac is not the same thing at all. Apple computers come bundled with the OS. It's a complete package. In fact, it's more practical to compare a Mac with OSX to a car and its ECU than a PC with Windows. It only needs to be compatible with the hardware it ships with. And the end user doesn't really care how it works under the hood. As long as the UI is similar to the old one they're familiar with, they love it.
Secondly, OSX was built on proven OS technology. I find myself very skeptical that MS would bend over and build a *nix OS as well. Most likely any kind of "clean break" move they made would be something completely new from the ground up, and completely unproven.
Wow. Did you actually read setagllib's posts? He pretty much already answered all your questions before you asked them.
But let me summarize for you: there's an aversion to it because it's already been done. You can already get the Linux flavor of your choice and install Wine on it. MS hates competing on a level playing field, and so much more when they're at a disadvantage, which they certainly would be if they went that route.
Yes, but in this case "many" does not usually equal "thousands". At most it equals a few dozen, and most of those use the CPU very little. So what you're left with the majority of the time is one or two process that need a lot of CPU, and a multitude of cores helps very little unless those big process can be split between them.
This article isn't about Europe and the rest of the world. But thanks for proving the point of the article and my post.
And here I've been, thinking all this time that the real benefit to SSDs was that your laptop could fall off a table while running without killing the hard drive. Silly me.
That's not insightful at all. Just about anyone who's ever used text messaging can tell you that you get charged for incoming texts. We do need a class action suit over this.
if they could form their own police force like the Gestapo, they would.
Why bother, when other police forces already do their dirty work for them.
It looks like they won't be satisfied until they can charge an "entertainment tax" that everyone on earth has to pay simply for being alive. And of course, dictate exactly how much that tax must be.
Yes, I did misread your comment. Nevertheless, most of my comment still stands. A 4870 in Crossfire performs significantly better than the X280 and the 9800 GX2 every benchmark I've seen except Crysis, and these cards also have the capability to be run in a quad Crossfire mode. Oh, and two of them sell for less than one of NVidia's top dogs.
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http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=581&type=expert
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Not any more. You haven't been keeping up too well with tech news eh? Read a few reviews and look at some benchmarks of the 4850 and 4870 cards. If it were just one or two review sites showing such favorable numbers for the new ATI cards, they might be suspect. It's not one or two. It's all of them.
Well, the amazing part of the whole deal here is that benchmarks show almost no decrease in framerate with PhysX turned on. So yeah, it's kind of a big deal.
And the even worse news for NVidia is some preliminary numbers for the upcoming 4870 X2 would indicate it will completely blow away anything NVidia currently has on the market.
Since I tend to use mostly ATI cards, this is great news.
Anyone who's read the books can see it's a trick question. As an elf (actually half-elf), she has quite a long lifespan.
Ohh, we have a winner!!
I'm going to guess there will be 3 "first posts" on this...
It really is too bad there's no "-1 idiot" mod here.
With logic like that, who needs an illusion?
Oh, don't get me wrong - I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I too have always enjoyed The Hobbit more than the trilogy. My point was more or less that I'd be happy just having more people read *any* of Tolkien's books instead of just watching the movies.
An exageration? Not really. I seem to recall the US DoJ deciding the best way of dealing with a pack of armed bank robbers was to blast the top few floors of a tower block into oblivion. Notice I said armed bank robbers. Those are the sorts of weapons you have access to. Didn't do a damn thing for the robbers, when the bombs started dropping.
In Britain, the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis was resolved by sending in the SAS. These are NOT guys you want to mess with, no matter HOW good you think you are on the shooting range. Concussion grenades and SMGs by some of the most highly trained commandos versus whatever .45's or shotguns you might have... I'm sorry, but it's going to be one-sided.
You pretty much just answered your own question. By having their own weapons, the people in SmallTown USA force the government to use bigger weapons and kill them, instead of merely rounding them up and shipping them off somewhere to linger in a place like Gitmo or worse. I sure know which I would prefer. Give me the quick version any day.What we really need is more people reading Tolkien instead of just watching a few movies and assuming they know all about his work.
Here's a quick Lord of the Rings trivia question for you movie watchers:
Q. How much older was Aragorn than Arwen?
Yes, unfortunately you can cheat by looking this up online.
I agree though, from a strictly business standpoint it doesn't make sense.
Having lived in New Mexico as a kid, I know exactly what you mean. I still miss that state. Most beautiful blue skies I've ever seen.